Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 0/2] Add support for ZSTD-compressed kernel

[Andi Kleen]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 07:57:46PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > The "favourite compressor" seems to roughly change every year, so if
> > we keep adding new ones things will get more and more convoluted.
> 
> The above patchset drops just bzip2.  It is the only one that's strictly
> beaten in every way (ratio, time, memory usage), there are also no other

Does time include build time? I've been reverting back to gzip recently
because I care very much about that.

> uses of bzip2 anywhere in the kernel so we'd get to drop its code
> completely: 900 lines of Linus' happiness.

Great!

> 
> Other candidates are lzo and bare lzma (you want lz4, zstd or xz instead),
> but those are used elsewhere thus there's hardly any gain.  If you want them
> gone, please say so -- I'll include their droppage.

Yes would be good to remove the kernel image support for those too
just to simplify the config process, even if it doesn't save much code.

-Andi